BBC debate: The Climate Connection

2010-12-03

The Climate Connection 2010Debate - What's Stopping Us?What's stopping us from taking action on climate change?Can research from other fields help us find solutions where conventional thinking around environmentalism might have failed?The last part of the Climate Connection explores some of the ideas we've heard throughout the series in an audience discussion with experts in the fields of economics, psychology, leadership and environmentalism.

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